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You will play a key role in ensuring the high availability, performance, and scalability of our data infrastructure, with a particular focus on deployments within Kubernetes.\n\nThe candidate will have responsibilities across the following functions:\n\nMySQL Expertise: \nDesign, deploy, and manage highly available, scalable, and performant MySQL clusters on Kubernetes clusters/Container platforms in production and non-production environments.\nPerform database installation, configuration, patching, and upgrades for MySQL.\nImplement and manage robust backup and recovery strategies for MySQL (e. g., MySQL Enterprise Backup, mysqldump).\nMonitor MySQL health, performance, and capacity, proactively identifying and resolving issues.\nConduct performance tuning, query optimisation, and capacity planning for MySQL.\nManage user access, security, and data encryption for MySQL.\nTroubleshoot complex MySQL-related incidents, performing root cause analysis.\nLead Life Cycle Management for MySQL DB product.\nLead projects in the DB space. 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